Foundation-collar.



PATENTED JULY 9, 1907.

. M. E. TRUEBLOOD.

FOUNDATION COLLAR.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.30,1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARY ESTHER TRUEBLOOD, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

FOUNDATION-COLLAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 9, 1907.

Application filed November 30, 1906. Serial No. 345,811.

. tion.

The object of this invention is to provide a foundation for womens laceand other overturned collars which will be susceptible of cheap and easyconstruction and also of convenient utilization, which will be light andwell ventilated and which will be invisible and durable and will conformsmoothly and without buckling or bulging to the contour of the neck.

The invention consists in a collar foundation made in the form of a bandof semi rigid thin material having formations and "characteristicshereinafter fully described and set forth in the claims.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,- v

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the collar foundation, as seen fromthe rear, and in its condition for use.

.Fig. 2 is a plan view of the band-forming strip as laid out in flatcondition.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all ofthe views.

I will now describe the appliance as constructed in the preferred andmost advantageous form known to me, expressly stating, however, thatminor changes from such precise form may be made without departing frommy invention or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof.

In the drawings,A represents the collar foundation, the same consistingof a band-forming strip of semirigid thin, or sheet, material, such, forinstance, as unglazed white celluloid of about ninety-five onethousandsof an inch in thickness, such material, as well known, being light andhaving a satisfactory quality of flexibility and elasticity, with,however, a degree of rigidity for rendering it peculiarly well adaptedfor the purpose. The said band forming strip has substantially parallelconcave upper, and convex lower, edges 11 and b respectively, and hasdownwardly and outwardly inclined end edges d d. The convex lower edgeis incidentally made slightly longer than the concave upper edge.

The upper and lower longitudinally extending marginal portions f f 2 ofthe strip are united by separate, integrally formed, diagonallyarranged, brace-forming portions g g at intervals between the ends ofthe strip while at the ends the strip has the uniting and brace-formingsections g the outer edges of which extend on lines approximately atright angles to the general length of the strip. v

The diagonal uniting and brace-forming portions 9 9 within one half ofthe strip are inclined reversely, and downwardly convergent, relativelyto the lengths of the diagonal brace forming portions within the otherhalf of the strip; and the various bracing and -margin-uniting portions9 g. and g 9 at intervals and separated, as shown in Fig. 2, leavebetween them a triangular aperture h at the middle, approximatelytrapezoidal apertures k h near the ends, and rhombic apertures h betweenthe middle and endwise located apertures.

The semi rigid strip of the shape described and shown will conformnicely and evenly in conjunction with the collar to the contour of theneck; and the uniting and brace-forming members by reason of theirarrangement in reversed diagonal series precludes the liability of thecollar-supporting band from buckling or bulging at any point in itslength. And by having the edges of the brace forming sections merged oncurved lines, as indicated at j, into and to join the inner edges of theupper and lower longitudinal portions f, f, the liability of the bandbecoming split,

cracked, or torn at the junction points is obviated. The band formingstrip of celluloid, or other thin semi rigid material having fitness tothe purpose may be produced by striking out with dies or molding.

I claim A one-piece ventilated collar-foundation comprising an integralskeleton strip or band of semi-rigid sheet material having a narrowmarginal region extending around all four sides and its interioroccupied by a longitudinallyarranged series of large multi-lateralapertures separated by narrow non-crossing braces extending transverselybe tween and formed integral with the longitudinal portions of saidmarginal region, the braces at each side of the center of the stripbeing parallel and inclined diagonally toward the center from theirupper to their lower ends, the two sets of braces being thus inclinedreversely.

MARY ESTHER TRUEBLOOD.

Witnesses:

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